QIANLONG SEVEN-CHARACTER INSCRIBED MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

细节

A PARCEL-GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF TARA
QIANLONG SEVEN-CHARACTER INSCRIBED MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Heavily cast, the slim figure shown seated in dhyanasana atop a lotus base, the right hand held in varada mudra, and the left held in vitarka mudra, also holding the end of a leafy lotus stem that rises to the shoulder where it supports a book, wearing beaded jewelry and a five-point foliate crown tied with ribbons that trail behind the ears hung with large earrings, the face cast with crisp features and gilded, as is the neck, the mark inscribed on the front of the base, the base plate inscribed with a double vajra
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

登入

浏览状况报告

拍品专文

The two final characters in the Qianlong reign mark, jing zhuang, which may be translated as 'assembled', may refer to the making of the piece or to the inclusion of the votif contents.
A related Qianlong mark appears on a gilded and painted bronze figure of a bodhisattva, from the estate of Edith Altschul Graham, sold in these rooms, 22 March 2007, lot 215. Both the above-cited and present figures appear to be from a similar group of Qianlong period bronzes influenced by Tibetan Buddhism. Related bronze Buddhist figures of bodhisattvas, placed in front of painted thangkas and beneath rows of Tibetan characters, can be seen in a shrine in the Pavilion of Raining Flowers in the Forbidden City, Beijing, illustrated in Cultural Relics of Tibetan Buddhism Collected in the Qing Palace, Beijing, 1998, pp. 254-55.